Bertie County NcArchives News.....John Lewis Harrington September 8, 1927
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Ledger-Advance, Windsor Newspaper September 8, 1927
This is an article in the Ledger-Advance, Windsor newspaper, dated 
Sept. 8, 1927

JOHN LEWIS HARRINGTON


The close friends of my boyhood and early manhood are rapidly going to 
the beyond.  Mr. Harrington left me last week.  We had been close 
personal, political and citizen friends for fifty years.  We disagreed 
on no fundamental of good citizenship, of good government, or of duty.  
Being at one on all the great fundamentals of life, our course of close 
friendship was never broken-was never even put to the test or strained.

     John Lewis Harrington was born in Beaufort County, May 10th, 1856.  
He was one year and four months my senior.  His parents were James O. 
Harrington and his wife, who was Mary M. Rogerson.

       He married Miss Martha E. Vick of Northampton County.  Eight of 
their ten children, five sons and three daughters, survive him.  Mr. 
Harrington came of strong country stock.  He was ambitious, but had 
little chance for schooling.  He made his own way, in public and 
private life he had the confidence of the people.  At his death he was 
a Justice of the Peace and Mayor of Lewiston.  The people of Bertie 
County called  him to membership in the boards of County Commissioners 
and of Education.  He served there faithfully and well.  Mr. Harrington 
had ingenuity and mechanical skill.  He invented, patented, and put 
upon the market a highly efficient and useful peanut picker.  A few 
years he lived in Winston-Salem, where he supervised the manufacture of 
that machine.  He was the head of the Harrington Manufacturing Co.

      Mr. Harrington was a member of Lewiston Baptist Church and of 
Lewistson Masonic lodge.  He was made a Mason in Davie Lodge in 1883.  
He based his life on the teachings of his church and the practices of 
Masonry.

        Funeral services at Lewiston and burial services at Aulander in 
the Minton family grave yard were largely attended.  His brothern and 
pastor and his lodge conducted the ceremonies.

      He was the father of H. Grady Harrington, a useful lawyer and 
citizen of Lewiston.

      I pay this slight tribute to the life of my old friend.  He knew I 
would do so

.FRANCIS D. WINSTON



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